As wedding season approaches smaller bridal boutiques will be hoping to find ways to attract custom to them and away from larger brands. Here are some pointers. 1. Get your finances in order A key consideration for any business is to plan your budgets well in advance: make allowances for staffing, overheads, marketing, stock rotation
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Lessons learned from…PwC’s Oscars debacle
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In this SmallBusiness monthly series of ‘Lessons Learned’, Jennifer Janson, author of The Reputation Playbook and managing director of Six Degrees, will assess how a company recently in the news has handled a crisis, and provide top tips for small businesses to avoid making the same mistakes: Even if you’re not a big Oscars fan,
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Sustainable energy solutions for long-term business success
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As a small business leader you’re a member of a group which holds the key to helping the UK realise the long-term benefits of sustainable energy usage. Reducing your carbon footprint is, however, a topic all too often filed presumptively under ‘too expensive’, ‘too time consuming’ or simply ‘just not a priority’. In fact, having a
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How to make a business partnership work
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Becoming your own boss is a dream plenty of people aspire to, but it’s a lot easier said than done. A recent survey of millennials by Bentley University found that two thirds of respondents have a desire to start their own business. Meanwhile, 37 per cent expressed a desire to work for themselves, and 25 per cent
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How to keep your company afloat in uncertain times
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In these straitened times, small businesses need as much help as they can get. By the end of March 2017, the entire country will be thrown into uncertainty when the government triggers Brexit with Article 50, which in all likelihood will create yet another referendum for Scottish independence. If you’re the owner of an SME,
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What things are controllable in today’s business landscape?
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The business landscape in which we compete today is volatile, increasingly competitive and, certainly over the long term, unpredictable. It may seem on the surface to be a hostile landscape for anyone who wishes to start or build a business by purposeful design as there are so many shifting variables. However, there is ample evidence
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Setting small business financial goals: Why and how you should do it
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Too few choose to ignore it, or simply don’t do properly, yet setting small business financial goals is a practice that can change the way you look at your business. Paying attention and getting it right, then, is absolutely vital. A financial goal is a target; something you put in place with hopes of achieving
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Why responding to changes in the market is vital to the success of your business
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The business landscape is constantly changing. Whether you are a small-scale marketing agency or an entrepreneur offering recruitment advice, it is clear that market conditions are different now to how they were even 18 months ago. Enterprises across all sectors are seeing their day-to-day operations completely revolutionised by the internet, technology in general and changing
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How I pivoted from publisher to business club founder
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Businesses pivot for a variety of reasons. It could be because it has transpired that your business model is flawed, you’re unable to generate a sustainable revenue, or your customers simply don’t like or no longer need what you’re offering. Or, perhaps, circumstances have changed or new technologies have developed enabling you to spot opportunities
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How will the apprenticeship levy benefit small businesses?
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Apprenticeships are evolving, and April will see fundamental changes to the way these programmes are funded and delivered. The introduction of the apprenticeship levy has stolen all the headlines, but this is a change that impacts on employers of all sizes. As well as changes to the funding – what an apprenticeship is has also
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